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ViktorBKK on 07 December 2013
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Mr Puggsly said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:


Think man...think. A console that sells over 160 + million has no effect on  the market price of a format? With Xbox sales afterward when Microsoft followed suit that increased it by like 24 million extra. You have got to be kidding me. So you're telling me you cannot find a Blu Ray player for $99 American after 2009 (three years after the PS3 launched)? I guess it is spin...somewhere in your mind. Sony has an advantage between both markets of influencing formats. Hardware and formats are their forte, just like Microsoft influenced OS on consoles post millenia.

No, I don't need to think about your irrelevant points.

Bluray would have become cheaper regardless if it was in PS3 and it still wasn't essential for PS3. Those are my points.


Mr Puggsly, you have clearly not been paying much attention to the format wars have you? There was another optical medium called HD DVD which was backed by the DVD forum. Companies like Toshiba, Intel and Microsoft had a big stake on this format. Early on, HD DVD was winning the format war, until PS3 was released and the rest is history. If it wasn't for PS3, HD DVD would have been the successor to DVD, and blu-ray would be a dead format today.

But you are certainly right that blu-ray wasn't essential for PS3. PS3 was essential for blu-ray :P